What if I told you that there was a magic pill or obscure vegetable that radically decreased your chances of getting cancer, having a stroke or a heart attack?
Would you be curious? Would you click a link?
Voila! It is here! But don’t tell anybody. Really. You could tank the economy.
(whispers) Walk for 45 minutes a day.
The reason this critical information could destroy America as we know it is the mammoth amount of money made on selling nonsense to people. Let’s go through the list:
Drinking urine
Acai berries
I’m tired already. Let’s just say there’s a lot, and it adds up to a lot of money. A NIH study reports that
Complementary and alternative medicine services in the United States are an approximately $9 billion market each year, equal to 3 percent of national ambulatory health care expenditures.
If they just walked for 45 minutes a day, all those “I did my own research” types would be forced to …
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